0000-0003-0319-5416Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an account of her CRISPR discoveries and the possibilities the technology unleashes. The book,

0000-0003-0319-5416Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy, narrator Neil deGrasse Tyson and on-camera experts walk through the major claims and key

0000-0003-0319-5416Recently I got to volunteer again at a “Building with Biology” event at the Museum of Science in Boston. Last year was the first event of its kind and now the program is spreading all over

0000-0003-0319-5416Reports of a “secret” meeting on synthetic human genomes have caused quite the uproar online. Some of the headlines and comments conjured up sci-fi plots of new artificial humans. While many predictably overhyped the meeting, there

After briefly fading from the media spotlight, CRISPR, the genome-engineering tool that caused widespread consternation at the end of 2015, when a Chinese group first reported applying the technique in (non-viable) human embryos, is staging a comeback in

By Charles Ebikeme In September of 2012, a paper published in Food and Chemical Toxicology, garnered widespread media attention. The paper documented how rats fed a particular line of herbicide-resistant maize showed higher tumour and

By Prashant Bhat The first annual Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) conference was held last month in Manhattan Beach, CA. Both new and veteran star-studded synthetic biologists shared the podium for four days

By Tabitha M. Powledge Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and hugely complex, genome of bread wheat, the staff of life for

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